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Whyville

Link: http://www.whyville.net/smmk/nice

ice A group of educators, scientists, artists and Internet experts have recently brought up a Web-based science education site intended to support both home and classroom-based learning by scientific inquiry. The site, www.whyville.net, was established to support a weekly science education article in the Los Angeles Times (see site for details). However, the scope and objectives of the project include the support of high quality science education in the real world. The design of Whyville is based on more than 15 years of research on science learning and its possible enhancement with computer technology. One of the real lights in the echoing darkness of science education is a small independent company called Numedeon, which runs a website called Whyville. Whyville has managed to do the impossible – generate massive interest in science among adolescent girls. Whyville has almost a quarter-million registered users, three quarters of which are middle-school aged girls.

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• Educational Type: Best practice
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• Educational Type: Curriculum
• Educational Type: Curriculum support
• Educational Type: Project
• Educational Type: Research study
• Educational Type: Study guide
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